circumscribed
"circumscribed" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“circumscribed” has 21 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,379. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,379
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Limited narrowly; restricted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-circumscribed · circumscribed · English
circumscribed · rank #46,379 · 21 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,379
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH CIP
Nearest frequency peer: CIP (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “circumscribed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- chink
chink
53,625 corpus weight
- CIP
CIP
53,623 corpus weight
- circumscrib…
circumscribed
53,622 corpus weight
- clack
clack
53,620 corpus weight
- clicker
clicker
53,619 corpus weight
- collation
collation
53,618 corpus weight
What this shows “circumscribed” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | circumscribed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #46,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “circumscribed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around circumscribed, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,379 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Limited narrowly; restricted.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for circumscribed, with forms such as "ccircumscribed", "cicrumscribed", and "circcumscribed". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is circumscribed, spelled C-I-R-C-U-M-S-C-R-I-B-E-D.
Definition
- 1Limited narrowly; restricted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how circumscribed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Blair brought out the febrile intensity of Stanhope, wiring himself into his ever more circumscribed troglodyte world, speculating moodily on the worm that went down when it thought it was coming up. Robert Philp thought Blair's ...
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccircumscribed
- cicrumscribed
- circcumscribed
- circmuscribed
- circumcsribed
- circummscribed
- circumsccribed
- circumscirbed
- circumscrbied
- circumscribbed
- circumscribde
- circumscribedd
- circumscriebd
- circumscrribed
- circumsrcibed
- circumsscribed
- circusmcribed
- cirrcumscribed
- cirucmscribed
- cricumscribed
- icrcumscribed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of circumscribed - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "circumscribed", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).